Tag Archives: Clean Ocean Action (COA)

MIDDLETOWN — Dozens of area advocacy groups and officials are seeking to delay a seismic testing program they say could have drastic impacts along the Jersey Shore. “Every day, 24/7, for 30 days in a very concentrated area off the Jersey Shore. … It’s pretty clear there is going to be harm.” gmnews.com Read more here 11:38

Jim Lovegren, representing a number of commercial fishing operations from Point Pleasant to Middletown, said his industry contributes nearly $1 billion a year to the New Jersey economy, and the proposed site of Port Ambrose threatens some established fishing grounds. “Let’s talk about my job,” he said, “I’ve been doing it for 40 years. My father and his father and his father — my family goes back 80 years as fishermen off of this coast. These are jobs that matter.” “I have fished where the new proposal is,” he added. “You’re in our fishing grounds.” [email protected]

NILS STOLPE: The New England groundfish debacle (Part IV): Is cutting back harvest really the answer?

While it’s a fact that’s hardly ever acknowledged, the assumption in fisheries management is that if the population of a stock of fish isn’t at some arbitrary level, it’s because of too much fishing. Hence the term “overfished.” Hence the mandated knee jerk reaction of the fisheries managers to not enough fish; cut back on fishing. What of other factors? They don’t count. It’s all about fishing, because fishing is all that the managers can control; it’s their Maslow’s Hammer. When it comes to the oceans it seems as if it’s about all that the industry connected mega-foundations that support the anti-fishing ENGOs with hundreds of millions of dollars a year in “donations” are interested in controlling. Read the article here

The problem? According to critics, marijuana plantations guzzle enormous amounts of water while also spilling pesticides, fertilizers and stream-clogging sediments into waterways, including the Eel and Read More »